Samantha (Sam) Brunhaver is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. Her primary research interests include engineering education, engineering career pathways, and engineering students’ transition from school into the workplace. Samantha’s dissertation explores the effects of social and cognitive factors on early career engineering graduates’ current occupation and future career plans. She is undertaking this work as part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Engineering Pathways Study (EPS).

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Samantha (Sam) Brunhaver is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. Her primary research interests include engineering education, engineering career pathways, and engineering students’ transition from school into the workplace. Samantha’s dissertation explores the effects of social and cognitive factors on early career engineering graduates’ current occupation and future career plans. She is undertaking this work as part of the National Science Foundation-funded Engineering Pathways Study (EPS).

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Samantha’s teaching interests include statics and solid mechanics, design, introductory-level engineering and mechanical engineering, and engineering education. At Stanford she has served as a teaching assistant for statics, finite element analysis, and design for manufacturing courses, and as a co-instructor for a graduate-level engineering education seminar. She has also done program evaluation work for both the Stanford Mechanical Engineering Department and the NSF. <br>

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Samantha’s teaching interests include design and manufacturing, statics and solid mechanics, introductory engineering, senior capstone, and engineering education. At Stanford she has served as a teaching assistant for statics, finite element analysis, and design for manufacturing courses, and as a co-instructor for a graduate-level engineering education seminar. She contributed to the course design of Engineering 14: Intro to Solid Mechanics.&nbsp;She has also done program evaluation work for both the Stanford Mechanical Engineering Department ABET assessment committee and the National Science Foundation Emerging Frontiers in Research Innovation (EFRI) Research in Mentoring (REM)&nbsp;program. <br>

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Samantha is a Stanford DARE Fellow. For the past three years, she has been co-president of the Stanford Mechanical Engineering Women’s Group, which holds an annual seminar series and welcome reception for graduate engineering women. She is also a founding member of the Stanford student chapter of the American Society for Engineering Education. Samantha has industry experience working at The Procter &amp; Gamble Company and Boston Scientific. After earning her doctorate, she hopes to work in academia as a faculty member and administrator.

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Samantha is a Stanford DARE Fellow. For the past three years, she has been co-president of the Stanford Mechanical Engineering Women’s Group, which holds an annual seminar series and welcome reception for graduate engineering women. She is also a founding member of the Stanford student chapter of the American Society for Engineering Education. Samantha has industry experience working at The Procter &amp; Gamble Company, The Boston Scientific Corporation, and A.W. Chesterton.&nbsp;

*Winters, K. E., Matusovich, H. M., &amp; '''Brunhaver, S.''' (2012, April). The impacts of economic decline on career decision making among early career engineers. Proceedings of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC.

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Samantha (Sam) Brunhaver is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. Her primary research interests include engineering education, engineering career pathways, and engineering students’ transition from school into the workplace. Samantha’s dissertation explores the effects of social and cognitive factors on early career engineering graduates’ current occupation and future career plans. She is undertaking this work as part of the National Science Foundation-funded Engineering Pathways Study (EPS).

Samantha’s teaching interests include design and manufacturing, statics and solid mechanics, introductory engineering, senior capstone, and engineering education. At Stanford she has served as a teaching assistant for statics, finite element analysis, and design for manufacturing courses, and as a co-instructor for a graduate-level engineering education seminar. She contributed to the course design of Engineering 14: Intro to Solid Mechanics. She has also done program evaluation work for both the Stanford Mechanical Engineering Department ABET assessment committee and the National Science Foundation Emerging Frontiers in Research Innovation (EFRI) Research in Mentoring (REM) program.

Samantha is a Stanford DARE Fellow. For the past three years, she has been co-president of the Stanford Mechanical Engineering Women’s Group, which holds an annual seminar series and welcome reception for graduate engineering women. She is also a founding member of the Stanford student chapter of the American Society for Engineering Education. Samantha has industry experience working at The Procter & Gamble Company, The Boston Scientific Corporation, and A.W. Chesterton.